Art
- Adepta Sororitas cosplay
- Angry Comics is a mash-up of Angry Birds and you favorite comic book characters.
- Gallery of amazing Gears of War 3 cosplay.
- Harry Potter / Son of Man Mash-Up
- Glados and Portal Turret cosplay
- Sushi shaped like Star Wars characters.
- The 5K Zombie Run is a cross between a marathon and a game of tag. Sounds cool, but I think I’d rather watch than participate.
Comics
- Interview: Grant Morrison Talks About Action Comics, His Batman Mega-Story, and Mothers: “in Arkham Asylum, when he sees his mother she’s been kind of haunting him, since they’re dragging him to — it’s not Zorro, but it’s an earlier movie, it’s Bambi, and his mother is saying ‘you shouldn’t be crying, you’ve made a fool of everybody.’”
- Interview: Paul Cornell on “Action Comics,” Stormwatch” & “Demon Knights
- Interview: ‘V for Vendetta’ Inspires Anonymous, David Lloyd Responds
- io9 considers The physics of Superman.
Cross-Media
- Interview: LeVar Burton on Star Trek, Roots, and Reading Rainbow [Videos]
- 10 Characters Who Don’t Deserve All the Stuff That Happens To Them
Film
- Interview: How Joss is Feeling.
- News: No Budget Indie Film Has Grossed $200K in iTunes Sales
- 8 controversial comic book movie castings that actually worked
- Infographic: Jason Voorhees’ Body Count In All The ‘Friday the 13th’ Movies
- Stephen Strange was an arrogant doctor, until a car accident damaged his hands, leading him try every cure possible. Eventually he made his way to the East, where the story progressed, and now he’s Doctor Strange, master of magic! His thrilling tale is set to be the first Marvel superhero movie since Marvel was purchased by Disney. But there has been much history behind the latest movie, including a period when Guillermo del Toro was involved and wanted to include Neil Gaiman, a draft script by Alex Cox, and a draft script by Bob Gale.
Literature
- Interview: Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Richard Morgan talks about his forthcoming book, The Cold Commands. (Due out in October)
- Interview: The Oakland Local talks with World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Peter S. Beagle.
- Interview: Publisher’s Weekly interviews Vernor Vinge.
- Interview: Michael Stackpole on self-publishing in a post-paper world
- Interview: Patrick Rothfuss answers fan questions.
- Interview: SFSignal asks What Is Your Favorite SF/F/H Saga/Series of All Time?
- Interview: Skiffy and Fantasy interviews Philippa Ballantine of Spectyr
- Interview: Suvudu interviews Glen Duncan of The Last Werewolf.
- News: Books-A-Million Moving Into Former Borders Stores
- News: E-Book Sales Rise More than 1,000% Since 2008
- News: Lawsuit filed against Apple and publishers over e-book price fixing
- News: Record Voter Turnout for 2011 Hugos
- 15 Weird and Mysterious Books
- Books are not turbines (or paper towels)
- George R.R. Martin shares what’s in his library: The Accursed Kings series, Have Space Suit — Will Travel, Leviathan Wakes…
- Forbes reflects on How E-Readers Can Save Reading
- Kno’s New IPad App Wants To Kill Textbooks
- The Messengers, Monsters, and Moral Instructors of Islamic Literature
Science
- Boeing “is planning to send its own employees to the International Space Station on the first crewed mission of its CST-100 ship, the company said Friday. Apparently internal interviews are already ongoing, because Boeing wants its astronauts to help drive further development of the space capsule.”
- NASA Researchers: DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space. “NASA researchers studying meteorites have found that they contain several of the components needed to make DNA on Earth. The discovery provides support for the idea that the building blocks for DNA were likely created in space, and carried to Earth on objects, like meteorites, that crashed into the planet’s surface. According to the theory, the ready-made DNA parts could have then assembled under Earth’s early conditions to create the first DNA.”
Technology
- The Camera That Goes to ONE MILLION FPS
- Micro-robots build themselves
- New hi-tech goggles convert visual data into sound. Once a blind person learns to use the device and interpret the audio, he can navigate by technology alone.
- Pentagon Testing 13,000MPH Unmanned Jet
Television
- News: Syfy cancels Eurkea. This was a long time coming?
- Michael A. Burstein on How to Save Eureka
Video Games
- News: Nintendo Increases Wii Budget Games Line
- The 10 Best Wii Games, as chosen by GamePro
- Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
- GameFly Offers PC Game ‘Rental’ Service
- “Hacking squad” gold farming for North Korea arrested in Seoul.
- The Top Ten Great Gaming Ideas That Ultimately Failed
Writing
- 25 Ways to Make Exposition your Bitch
- Some Brief Thoughts on Love, Relationships, and Characters in Fiction
- Writing 101: Yes, Virginia, This Is the Digital Age
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